Ivana Vanjak Season 2013

As a Redshirt Junior (2016) • National Champions

• Transitioned back to outside hitter this season after playing middle in 2015
• Posted a career-high 13 kills and five digs against No. 10 Purdue (Sept. 9)
• Led the team with 10 kills and six digs at Pacific (Sept. 17)
• Recorded 11 kills and four digs in the Pac-12 opener at Cal (Sept. 20)
• Registered a career-best seven digs to go with five kills and a season-high five blocks at Oregon State (Sept. 23)
• Hit .316 with nine kills, three digs and two blocks versus Utah (Oct. 9)
• Totaled eight kills and three blocks in a sweep at No. 19 Utah (Nov. 5)
• Tied her career-high with 13 kills versus No. 13 UCLA (Nov. 12)
• Hit .455 with 11 kills in the first round of the NCAA Tournament versus Denver (Dec. 2)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Redshirt Sophomore (2015) 

• Transitioned from an outside hitter to a middle blocker during the preseason
• Started 19 matches, appearing in 109 sets
• Ranked seventh in the Pac-12 with 1.24 blocks per set
• Recorded eight blocks in the season opener versus Texas A&M (Aug. 28)
• Tallied a career-high three digs in a win over No. 6 Illinois (Sept. 4)
• Posted a career-best eight kills on a .429 hitting percentage at North Carolina (Sept. 10)
• Registered a career-high 11 blocks in a five-set win at Duke (Sept. 11)
• Notched six blocks and three kills in a sweep over No. 24 Pacific (Sept. 19)
• Led the team with nine blocks in a win at No. 14 Arizona (Sept. 30)
• Hit .750 with six kills and two blocks in a win versus No. 4 Washington (Oct. 21)
• Posted a .600 attack percentage with six kills and six blocks in a sweep over No. 14 Arizona State (Oct. 28)
• Went 7-0-10 (.700) and racked up six blocks in a win at Washington State (Nov. 15)
• Tied her career-high with eight kills on .545 hitting against Cal (Nov. 25)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Redshirt Freshman (2014) 

• Made her collegiate debut against Duke (Sept. 12)
• Recorded two kills on six attempts in a sweep over Penn (Sept. 13)
• Logged her first career start against Eastern Washington (Sept. 19)
• Posted four blocks and her first collegiate ace against the Eagles

As a Freshman (2013)

• Redshirted her first season on The Farm

High School

• A 2013 graduate of Albert-Einstein-Schule in Schwalbach, Germany
• Also played basketball and table tennis
• Named Hans-Georg-Mies-Preis, best young athlete of the year in the region Main-Taunus-Kreis
• Named the most promising Croatian athletic talent living abroad by the national newspaper

Club Competition

• Played for TG Bad Soden and VC Wiesbaden
• Team was the runner-up at the German Cup and placed third at the German Bundesliga
• U20 Champion of Hessen and South-West Germany
• U18 team was second at Hessen Championship and third at South-West Championship

National Team Experience

• A member of the Croatian Junior National Team in 2012 and 2013
• Competed at the European World Championship Qualification in Bulgaria in 2013
• Played with the Senior National Team at Maribor in 2013

Personal

• Daughter of Tonci and Valerija Vanjak
• Has three siblings, Antonija, Ana and Ivan
• Her uncle, Josko Vukicevic, played basketball for the Croatian National team and professionally in Europe for Cibona-Zagreb, Zadar, KK Zagreb and Ovarense
• Her sister Ana played volleyball at Cornell University
• Major is chemical engineering
• Enjoys ballet, piano and is fluent in five languages

Career Highs